Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Roth

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 28, 1987No. 211, 215 and 244PublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DEL SOLE, Judge:

Today we consider an appeal from the judgments of sentence stemming from Appellants’ convictions of Disorderly Conduct and Failure of Disorderly Persons to Disperse upon Official Order. By their brief, Appellants raise the following issues:

1. whether there lacked sufficient evidence to support Appellants’ convictions;

2. whether Appellants’ convictions were in violation of their constitutional rights to First Amendment free speech and assembly;

3. whether § 5503(a)(4) of the disorderly conduct statute is unconstitutionally overbroad and vague; and,

4. whether irrelevant and…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  4. Cox v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  5. Shuttlesworth v. City of BirminghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1969

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3Cited by36 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
  2. Commonwealth v. MauzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2015
  3. Commonwealth v. YoungSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
  4. Commonwealth v. GowanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
  5. Commonwealth v. N.M.C.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2017

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